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Boston Globe Concerned About Fallout from Gay Marriage
Many readers are pointing to the Globe story last Friday (a reprint from the Washington Post) which said that those in favor of gay marriage “expect to lose” across the country where the voters are allowed to vote on the issue.
They were shocked by the result in Missouri where 400,000 more voters than normal turned out to give the Amendment a 71% win.
“Sadly, I do think a lot of these state ballot initiatives will succeed despite our best efforts to stop them,” said Cheryl Jacques, now President of the Human Rights Campaign.
But no one mentions that such an Amendment was headed for certain victory in Massachusetts in 2002 until the Globe urged the Democratic legislature to violate the state Constitution and not allow a vote of legislators, who would have sent it on to the citizens for their vote. When commenting on the illegal action in 2002, Jacques, then a state Senator, said she would take her victory any way she could get it. But that will be coming back to haunt her and the Democrats in November, both in this state and across the nation.
What is lost in the discussion, however, is that many of these Amendments now working their way through the states do not forbid civil unions, which everyone has seen are merely a stepping stone for homosexual “marriage,” beginning in California in 2000.body |
